Manchester City CEO: The Club World Cup is a great initiative, and it is very important to the promotion of football and Manchester City s globalization.

June 20th Manchester City CEO Ferran Soriano said that the club's World Cup is a great initiative and a missing link in the football schedule.

In recent years, Soriano has been committed to the globalization of Manchester City and has promoted the construction of club networks within the City Football Group. Although criticisms have been raised over the past month for the newly expanded tournament, some of which even come from Manchester City’s own players, the Spaniard believes it is very important to participate in the tournament.

Soriano: "It's very important to be here because we are a global football club, we have our roots, and we are proud of it. The team can be both local, relevant and faithful to the history of the club and the support of the fans, but it can also be global, showing the world what we think is beautiful. It's a very effective combination and we are proud of it. I think it's a great initiative and we're very happy to be involved."

"We're very excited about it, I think it's a very needed event, football is a global one Sports, we have to globalize it. You have to have teams like Manchester City play teams from Morocco, South Korea or elsewhere. It's part of the world's No. 1 sports globalization."

The 58-year-old executive also hinted that Manchester City may have completed tasks in the transfer market this summer: "I'm happy with our job, we only bought one new player last summer, but there will be eight new players in total this winter and summer. It's part of the annual cycle, an update to the team. We've accelerated some of the process and now we're very happy with the existing roster."